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Figure 21-2 Message traveling from Houston to NYC

But what would happen if the entire southeastern United States were to

experience a huge power outage and Internet backbones in every state from

Virginia to Florida were to go down? Jane’s message would fail to go

through, so the Rice computers would resend Jane’s message. Meanwhile, the

routers would update their list of good routes and then attempt to reroute the

message to functioning nodes—say, Rice to University of Chicago, to

University of Toronto, and then to SUNY (see Figure 21-3). It’s all in a day’s

work for the highly redundant and adaptable Internet. At this point in the

game, the Internet simply cannot go down fully—barring, of course, a

catastrophe of Biblical proportions.

Figure 21-3 Rerouted message from Houston to NYC

TCP/IP: The Common Language of the Internet

As you know from all the earlier chapters in this book, hardware alone

doesn’t cut it in the world of computing. You need software to make the

machines run and create an interface for humans. The Internet is no

exception. TCP/IP provides the basic software structure for communication

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